Myroslav Stupar

Myroslav Ivanovych Stupar (Ukrainian: Мирослав Іванович Ступар; Russian: Мирослав Иванович Ступар; born August 27, 1941) is a Ukrainian retired footballer and football referee.

Myroslav Stupar

Personal information
Full name	Myroslav Ivanovych Stupar
Date of birth	(1941-08-27) 27 August 1941
Place of birth	Stanislav, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1958–1961	Spartak Stanislav
1962–1963	Volyn Lutsk
1964–1965	Dynamo Khmelnytskyi
1966–1969	Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Myroslav Stupar

Domestic
Years	League	Role
1973–1991	Soviet Top League	Referee
International
Years	League	Role
1977-1982	FIFA listed	Referee

Career

As a player, he was a goalkeeper and played for Spartak Stanislav / Ivano-Frankivsk, FC Volyn Lutsk, Dinamo Khmelnytskyi, also for the FC Dynamo Kyiv reserves.

As a referee he officiated at about 150 matches of the Soviet Top League. Stupar twice refereed Soviet Cup finals (1979, 1981). He appeared 7 times in the Soviet annual best referees list.

He refereed the 1982 World Cup game in Valladolid, Spain, between France and Kuwait. France were leading 3-1 when their midfielder Alain Giresse broke through to score a fourth goal. The Kuwaiti players protested, claiming that they had stopped playing because they had heard a whistle from the crowd and thought it was the referee blowing. Stupar ended up disallowing Giresse's goal and the game resumed with a dropped-ball at the spot where it was believed the game stopped at the whistle. France ended up winning 4–1.

External links

• (in German) Profile
• (in Ukrainian) Verbytsky, I. Myroslav Stupar: After ending my playing career, I could not visit a stadium for three months (Мирослав Ступар: Завершивши кар’єру, не міг відвідувати стадіон впродовж трьох місяців). UA-Football. 20 January 2014.